‘ACCIDENTALLY IN LOVE’
PRODUCTION BIOS
LARRY LEVINSON (Executive Producer) - Larry Levinson has served as executive producer on a wide range of movies, from miniseries to feature films. He has overseen numerous Hallmark Channel Original Movies in every genre, from adventure to drama to romance.
Levinson also executive produced the popular Hallmark Channel Mystery Movie franchises “Jane Doe,” “McBride,” “Mystery Woman” and “Murder 101.”
His film credits include “Larry McMurtry’s Streets of Laredo” and “Larry McMurtry’s Dead Man’s Walk.” He executive produced Burt Reynolds’ “Hard Times” telefilms featuring detective Logan McQueen. He also executive produced, with actor Dennis Quaid, “Everything that Rises” and “Mark Twain’s Roughing It.” With actor Tom Berenger, Levinson executive produced “Rough Riders.”
For the Hallmark Channel, Levinson’s substantial work as executive producer on original films includes “The Last Cowboy,” ”Straight From the Heart,” “Love Comes Softly,” “Audrey’s Rain,” "The King and Queen of Moonlight Bay,” “Hard Ground,” “A Time to Remember,” “Just Desserts,” “A Place Called Home,” “The Long Shot (Believe in Courage),” “Life on Liberty Street,” “King Solomon’s Mines,” “La Femme Musketeer,” “The Trail to Hope Rose,” “The Reading Room,” “Our House,” “Where There’s A Will,” “Love’s Enduring Promise,” “Out of the Woods” and “Thicker Than Water.”
Levinson also served as executive producer on “The Christmas Card” in 2007. The film stands as Hallmark Channel’s highest-rated original movie.
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DAVID BURTON MORRIS (Director) - David Burton Morris has directed an extensive list of made-for-television films, including “Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis,” “Any Mother’s Son,” “The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery,” “The Beat Goes On: The Sonny and Cher Story,” “Come On Get Happy: The Partridge Family Story,” and the Hallmark Channel Original Movie “Chasing a Dream.”
Morris directed the 1992 theatrical film “Jersey Girl,” and has also directed episodic television, including HBO’s “Tales from the Crypt,” “China Beach,” “Space Rangers” and “Sirens.”
His directing work has won Cable ACE awards, and he has been nominated for a DGA award. Morris' films have received 25 award nominations, including seven Emmy® nominations.
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Raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, Morris attended UCLA Film School. He returned to his native state to make feature films "Purple Haze" in 1983 and 1988's "Patti Rocks." The latter won the Coup de Coeur for Best Feature Film at the Deauville International Film Festival, Critics Week at the Venice International Film Festival, and was nominated for five Independent Spirit Awards. Both films were shown in competition at the Sundance Film Festival, where "Purple Haze" won the Grand Jury Prize in 1983. Morris's 1976 student feature film "Loose Ends" was shown out of competition at the festival in 1988.
Morris has lived in Minnesota since 1994, sharing a home with his screenwriter wife, Victoria Wozniak, their two children and various animals.
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PETER FACINELLI (Writer) – Peter Facinelli has established himself as one of Hollywood's most sought-after actors with distinctive, versatile, and impressive performances.
Facinelli can be seen starring as Dr. Carlisle Cullen, the altruistic patriarch of the Cullen clan, in the blockbuster feature films “Twilight” and “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” for Summit Entertainment. The Twilight film franchise is based on Stephenie Meyer's #1 New York Times bestselling literary series. Both films broke multiple box office records. “Twilight” earned the 2nd biggest opening day for a non-sequel and opened at #1 in 23 international territories. “The Twilight Saga: New Moon” shattered records for opening day, bringing in an unprecedented $72.7 million dollars on Friday alone. With $142.8 million in its opening weekend, “New Moon” earned the third highest-grossing opening behind “The Dark Knight” and “Spider-Man 3” and was the highest-grossing opening of 2009. Facinelli reprised his role in “The Twilight Saga: Eclipse,” the third film based on the blockbuster book series. Directed by David Slade, the film was released in the summer of 2010.
Facinelli currently stars opposite Edie Falco in Showtime's critically acclaimed series “Nurse Jackie”, a dark comedy following a pill-popping, yet morally sound New York City nurse juggling the frenzied grind of an urban hospital. Facinelli appears as Dr. Cooper, a golden boy afflicted with a quirky variation of Tourette's Syndrome. Recently picked up for a third season, “Nurse Jackie” was named one of the American Film Institute's Top Ten TV Shows of 2009 and was nominated for a 2010 Writers Guild Award in the “New Series” category and a 2010 Emmy for ”Best Comedy Series.”
In 2009, Facinelli started a production company, Facinelli Films. In association with Verdi- Corrente Productions, Facinelli Films will produce the upcoming film,”Loosies.” Facinelli will star in the fast-paced dramatic comedy about a successful pickpocket in the New York City subways. The film completed production in 2010, and is written by Facinelli and directed by Michael Corrente (“Outside Providence,” “American Buffalo”). Additionally, Facinelli Films and
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Verdi-Corrente Productions will partner on the film, “Paz,” the inspirational true story of champion boxer, Vinny Pazienza, who after a paralyzing accident defied all odds and not only walked again but was able to get back into the ring to continue his boxing career. Facinelli will star, with Corrente at the helm.
Facinelli’s career boasts over thirty feature films starring alongside award winning actors such as Matthew Broderick in the dramedy, “Finding Amanda,” which premiered at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival. His portrayal in “The Big Kahuna” had Facinelli co-starring alongside Kevin Spacey and Danny Devito and earned him rave reviews. Other feature film credits include Penny Marshall's “Riding in Cars with Boys” opposite Drew Barrymore, “The Scorpion King” opposite Dwayne Johnson, a starring role in Walter Hills' sci-fi thriller “Supernova” with James Spader and Angela Bassett, “Tempted,” opposite Burt Reynolds and Saffron Burroughs, “Dancer,” “Texas Pop. 81” with Breckin Meyer, “Foxfire” opposite Angelina Jolie, and the cult classic “Can't Hardly Wait” opposite Jennifer Love Hewitt.
Facinelli also has an impressive television resume including a recurring role on the 2007 season of “Damages”, FX's award winning legal thriller starring Glenn Close. Additional television credits include a recurring role on the award winning HBO Series “Six Feet Under,” for which Facinelli shared the cast's 2005 nomination for the SAG Award for Best Ensemble in a Drama; as well as the starring role in McG's sexy one-hour drama “Fastlane.”
Facinelli was born and raised in New York, and attended NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. He currently resides in Los Angeles with his wife, Jennie Garth, and three daughters.
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CHARLES THOMAS DANIELS (Writer) - From serving in the United States Marine Corps in Vietnam to being a New York state narcotics officer to running a movie studio and becoming a writer, director and entrepreneur, screenwriter Charles Daniels life reads like a Hollywood picture. Daniels has maintained a career in the film industry for several years since getting his start in the 1970s, when he went to work for The Burbank Studios—then Warner Communications and Columbia Pictures—where he learned all aspects of filmmaking.
In the early 1980s, Daniels was asked by the Board of Colombia Pictures to head Ryder Sound Studios. Because of Daniels’ natural business acumen, he was given a special post that brought Ryder out of near bankruptcy to become an emerging powerhouse in Hollywood. While at the studio, Ryder was involved with over 60 films, including “Wall Street,” “White Nights,” the miniseries “Stalin,” and “Platoon” took home the Oscar for Best Sound. During this time, Daniels was asked to chair “The Silvertip Symposium,” a five-year study on how to produce independent films.
After leaving Ryder, Daniels took time off to travel and write, but was a consultant on several
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screenplays and foreign distribution deals. He continues to remain active in the industry, regularly attending the film markets such as Cannes and AFM. He has maintained a long-term working relationship with actor Peter Facinelli, with whom he wrote “Accidentally In Love.” Along with directing and writing, Daniels was most recently appointed by the Congressional Committee to serve on the Business Advisory Council.
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